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The Kite Runner is the first novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. [1] ... The Kite Runner was one of the most banned books in 2021-2022. [35]
He provided a statement in 2022 to The Ledger in Lakeland, Florida, after a conservative group there pushed for "The Kite Runner" and other books to be banned from schools: "High school students ...
PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for freedom of expression, counted 3,362 instances of book titles being banned in schools in the 2022-23 school year, ... "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner: Banned due to inciting violence. [1] Albania. Date Title Notes 1980–1990 Pas vdekjes (After Death)
The Kite Runner: Khaled Hosseini: Offensive language, unsuited to age group, violence 2003 11 50 — Lady Chatterley's Lover: D. H. Lawrence: Sexual content 1928 — — — Lawn Boy: Jonathan Evison: LGBT and sexual content [11] 2018 — — — Less than Zero: Bret Easton Ellis: Drug abuse, sexual content, language and a bisexual main ...
The Bondurant-Farrar School Board has reversed its decision to permanently remove 17 book titles from the district's classrooms and libraries, and also is returning dozens of other books to ...
The Kite Runner is a 2007 American drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Benioff and based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini.It tells the story of Amir a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul who is tormented by the guilt of abandoning his friend Hassan (Mahmoodzada).
Katherine Mangu-Ward of Reason noted that the ALA's list of challenged and banned books "suggests book banners lean right—with an increasing emphasis on books with queer themes or characters, for example—though book challenges come from across the spectrum of political opinion and aesthetic preference.", but added that "It's debatable ...